Singapore has public housing, subsidized healthcare, public schools, mandatory military service and public transportation.

Also living on any sort of low wage is massivly uncomfortable. Just affording air conditioning is difficult.

Even people with great jobs end up living with multiple generations of family in tiny apartments.

Might want to update your profile then, it still says London.

What do we know about Singapore? It has masses and masses of public housing, so people are looked after in a way that doesn't happen in the US. The US is very keen to push this sort of thing on employers - see also health insurance.

It's a different model and I would agree probably a worse one, but either way it's the state ensuring people have their basic needs met.

Ha, Bloomberg is also no longer current.

The US healthcare-through-employer tax rebates are crazy. But politically untouchable, alas.